After employees opt to be paid in Bitcoin, the Internet Archive asks for donations in the digital currency

The Internet Archive on Thursday made a bold announcement : the organization is considering giving all its employees the option to be paid in Bitcoin. The move is apparently in response to employees asking to be paid in the digital currency, as soon as this April. Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, currently the most-widely used alternative to common forms of money. Because it has no central issuer, it has no single authority and thus no way to lock out certain users (or countries) out of the network. Bitcoin can be used to pay for certain transactions both offline and online. The Internet Archive says it wants to make being paid in Bitcoin a continuing option. Here’s the organization’s take on it: As Bitcoin is becoming the “local currency” of the Internet, then the Internet Archive would like to help support it and use it. In the last 2 years, over 300 people h...